Okay, it isn't really a shortage but a complete absence. The beets that Robin and Lisa grow are sweet but they grow them for use as a vegetable, not for making sugar.
But I was thinking that with a civilization starting up, people will want pies and other desserts and while with Alma alone, they could find a way around not having sugar and make it just as good, with 105 people total(including Robin, Lisa, Alma, and the twins), they really will need sugar. They could use tree sap but that would be winter only and not all tree sap is usable for sugar(Birch and Maple are the only 2 I know of and maple is pretty picky as to when sap comes out).
Fruit juice would be impossible to make sugar from because it is so well dissolved that it will caramelize and burn before it separates.
So that leaves 2 things I know of that might or might not work as an all year long supply of sugar.
1) Form a team of explorers to find a special plant they can grind up into sugar
or
2) Use some of the beets to make sugar
Of course there might be a different solution that I have never thought of.
So do you have any suggestions as to how they should go about making an all year long supply of sugar?
But I was thinking that with a civilization starting up, people will want pies and other desserts and while with Alma alone, they could find a way around not having sugar and make it just as good, with 105 people total(including Robin, Lisa, Alma, and the twins), they really will need sugar. They could use tree sap but that would be winter only and not all tree sap is usable for sugar(Birch and Maple are the only 2 I know of and maple is pretty picky as to when sap comes out).
Fruit juice would be impossible to make sugar from because it is so well dissolved that it will caramelize and burn before it separates.
So that leaves 2 things I know of that might or might not work as an all year long supply of sugar.
1) Form a team of explorers to find a special plant they can grind up into sugar
or
2) Use some of the beets to make sugar
Of course there might be a different solution that I have never thought of.
So do you have any suggestions as to how they should go about making an all year long supply of sugar?